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Ergot : the story of a parasitic fungus

by: Wellcome Library

Publication date: 1958

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States

Topics: Medicine -- History, Obstetrics, Ergonovine -- pharmacology, Medical sciences, UK, Maternal and child health, Medicine -- History, Obstetrics, Ergonovine -- pharmacology, Medical

Publisher: Produced by Wellcome Foundation Film Unit with Prof. W.C. Nixon and Mr W.G. MacGregor (Dept. of Obstetrics, University College Hospital, London), Sir Henry Dale and Prof. J. Chassar Moir (Nuffield Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford)

Rights: Wellcome Trust 1958 2008

A comprehensive survey of the natural, medical and social history, commercial production and obstetric use of ergot and its derivative ergometrine. Includes a detailed description of the life-cycle of the fungus, live action footage of the use of ergometrine in the Department of Obstetrics, University College Hospital to expidate delivery in childbirth and Professor Chassar Moir's own account of the discovery of ergometrine in 1935. 4 segments